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CLINICAL INTERACTION AND THE ANALYSIS OF MEANING IBD

ROUTLEDGE
01 / 2019
9781138872424
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Sinopsis

Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning evinces a therapeutic vitality all too rare in works of theory.á Rather than fleeing from the insights of other disciplines, Dorpat and Miller discover in recent research confirmation of the possibilities of psychoanalytic treatment.á InáSection I, 'Critique of ClassicaláTheory,' Dorpat proposes aáradical revision of the notion of primary process consonant with contemporary cognitive science.á Such a revised conception not only enlarges our understanding of the analytic process, it also provides analysisáwith a conceptual languageáthat can articulate meaningful connections with a growing body of empirical research about the developmentáand nature of human cognition.In Section II, 'InteractionaláTheory,' Miller reverses the direction of inquiry.á He beginsáwith the literature on cognitive development and functioning, and proceeds to mine it for concepts relevant to the clinical process.ááHe shows how a revised understanding of the operation of cognition and affect can impart new meaning to basic clinical concepts such as resistance, transference, and level of psychopathology.á In Section III, 'Applications and Exemplifications,' Dorpat concludes this exemplary collaboration by exploring select topics from the standpoint of his and MillerâÇÖs newápsychoanalyticátheory.At the heart of the authorsâÇÖ endeavoráit 'meaning analysis,' a concept that integrates an up-to-dateámodel of human information processing with the traditional goals of psychoanalysis.á The patient approaches the clinical encounter, they argue, with cognitive-affective schemas that are the accumulatice product of his life experience to date, the manifold meanings ascribed to the clinical interaction must be understood as the product of these schemas rather than as distortions deriving from unconscious, drive-related fantasies.á The therapistâÇÖs goal is to make the patientâÇÖs meaning-making conscious and thus available for introspection. á

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